Subject: Re: How to specify variable ending on whitespace?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/27/2004 23:37:15
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On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:45:19AM -0400, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> Well, I also noticed a problem with this, and while I don't have a
> solution, I do at least have another data point:
>=20
> _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME is used in several ways.  On the one hand, it's used
> to specify the flags to the *compiler* which flags are to be passed on
> to the linker, ie '-Wl,${_OPSYS_RPATH_NAME}'.  In this instance, the
> correct flags for MIPSPro compilers would be '-Wl,-rpath,/path'.
> Setting _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME to "-rpath " would not work, in this scenario
> (nor did using two '-Wl' flags (as "-Wl,-rpath -Wl,/path"), which is why
> we set _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME to "-rpath," for Irix to begin with).

a minor tangent - packages should not directly use _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME,
only RPATH_FLAG.

grant.


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